The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

The total production Of coffee in the
world is about 65O000 tons.
THE festivities of the Emperor of China's
wedding will cost s5,0O0,O00.
TWENTY divorces were recently granted
in one day by u Georgia court
MORE than 1900 persons in New York
make living by street music.
Six election crooks have been sentenced
to the penitentiary from Baltimore.
IT is said that no relative, however dis
tant, Of the poet Moore is now living.
The Shnday-school membership OF the
world numbers nearly twenty millions.
The Weekly Courant, of Hartford, Ct, Is
the Oldest newspaper in this country,
having had an uninterrupted career since
1854.
The breeches Of our fathers are being
talked of again as one of the reforms in
dress.
SWITZERLAND consumes more liquor per
capita than any other country on the
globe.
THERE is an alarming increase of diph-
liberia in the tenemcnt-house district Of
New York. Children are the greatest suf-
ferers.
GEO NJ. PULLMAN, the palace car poten-
tate, will visit Italy next month, and, it is
said, will be created Duke by King
Humbert.
AN Indian woman named Shaw has pat
ented dust pan, on which she is making
q fortune.
QUEEN NATALIE, a Bucharest dispatch
says, returns her royal husbands letters
unopened, and will consult the Gar about
q divorce.
QUEEN VICTORIA paid s5OO,OOO expenses
of entertaining her royal guests during
the jubilee.
TYPE-wRIT1NG is not rated as printed
matter by the German and Swedish postal
authorities.
THE Fourth of July was more generally
observed throughout the country than for
many years.
A FALL of two feet, from his porch to
the ground, broke the neck of q resident
of Bridgeville, Del.
THERE is a French company that has or
ganzed for the purpose of breeding Ara
bian horses in Dakota.
HEREAFTER bank bearing the name of
"Fidelity" will be looked upon with sew
eral grains of infidelity.
THE statistics show that Philadelphia
has S,034 saloons, but only 400 Americans
engaged in the business.
THE Philadelphia Item says: "Cucum-
ber, college graduates and other green
things are now plentiful"
THE only millionaire of African lineage
in this country is Ionic Lafon, French
quadroon, of New Orleans
THE colored soldiers reunion, combining
Ohio Indiana and Kentucky, will be held
In Louisville, KY, July 20.
SOME Boston iend has invented a fire
cracker that far exceeds in noise any
thing of the kind ever made.
EX-EMPREss EUGENE, of France has APP
piled to the City of Naples for the position
of nurse in one of its hospitals.
ONE hundred and sixty millions of
Northern capital has sought investment in
the South within the past year.
Now Utah is clamoring to get into the
Union. Dakota, Washington, Montana
and Wyoming are in the same fix.
AT one ii me Mount Vesuvius was silent
for nearly fifteen centuries. And yet we
speak of Vesuvius in the femme gender.
THE Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette says Gin.
cinnati bank robbers wear better clothes
than Texas train robbers, but their princi-
pies are the same.
" "ICOA Souuty, Od., HAS ulIecu Hdle
and hearty male citizens who have passed
the age of four score and ten. Micajah
Owens, ninety-seven years old, heads the
list.
CHARLESTON, s. c., has been celebrating
She one hundred and eleventh anniver-
sary of the battle of Fort Moultrie, where
certain Americans and Britishers were
engaged.
n ~ hn 1on OF pr;p oato
has for years striven to have it changed
to the university plan and has this year
succeeded. Hereafter it will be known as
the Princeton University.
He loaded is coming
in from all sections of the country. The
crop promises to be unusually large. If a
few of them We're hanged for murder it
might be warning to others.
In England, swells who wish to be con-
sidered conservative" now fold their
letters, address them on the back of the
sheet and seal them with wax as their
grandfathers did fifty years ago.
THE girls in n western coeducational
college are said to haze good-looking fresh
men by blindfoldng and kissing them. 1t
must be that the trustees have put up this
job to draw students to their institution.
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Bushnell, H., is 5000, and yet six saloon
men have applied for licenses. This rep
resents about sl2 apiece from every man,
woman and child in the town.
THOSE Goulds are wonderful people says
the Atlanta Constitution. Little Eddie, who
is not of age, walked down on Wall street
the other day and made 100000 before
dinner while his papa was skinning Cyrus
Field few blocks away.
The people Of this country can stand al
most any thing. For instance, they take
e22 1000, 600 worth Of patent medicines every
year, and still there are hundreds of aged
citizens from one end of the land to the
other.
The question whether the police have
the right to search socialists house for
bombs and Internal machines is to be de-
cided in the courts in Baltimore
NAPoLEoN's travelling carnage, which
was captured at Waterloo by Field Mar
shall Blucher, is still in existence near ST.
lesia. Napoleon had left the carriage o
short time before its capture, abandoning
his hat, sword, and some valuables.
The wall paper pool, after an existence
OF seven years, has been broken, and the
manufacturers go II alone. There are
about thirty-hve wall paper manufactures
In the United States, situated mainly in
N'w York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and
Buffalo. ,lt
THH interesting rumor has gone forth
that ex-senator Jones, of Florida intands